People v. . Montgomery
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, rendered at a Trial Term for the county of Delaware, June 23, 1902, upon a.verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of murder in the first degree. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Werner, J.:
The gruesome tragedy out of which this appeal arises took place in the town of Hobart, Delaware county, ■on the 30th day of March, 1901, when Amelia B. Montgomery came to her. death by means of a bullet wound inflicted by her husband, the defendant, who was subsequently tried and convicted upon the charge of murder in the first degree..The death and its cause having been established beyond controversy, the dominating issue of the trial was whether the act of the defendant proceeded from a conscious, sane, responsible mind, or whether it was an accident due to a seizure, said to be…
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